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Welcome to Majestic-12!

Majestic-12 is working towards creation of a World Wide Web search engine based on concepts of distributing workload in a similar fashion achieved by successful projects such as SETI@home and distributed.net. You can read more details on the project here. Below you can see recent news highlights, but for full details its best to check our forum.

20/11/17 MJ12node v1.7.16

New node with a few changes, please download from here!

15/11/16 MJ12node v1.7.15 (Update 2)

New node with lots of changes, please download from here!

30/05/15 MJ12node v1.7.13

Important update, please download from here!

28/05/15 MJ12node v1.7.12

Important update, please download from here!

5/07/14 Project continues for existing members only

From today we are stopping accepting NEW project members, however the project continues for those who have already joined it!

22/04/14 MJ12node v1.7.11

Important update, please download from here!

25/08/13 MJ12node v1.7.10

Important bug fix, please download from here!

23/08/13 MJ12node v1.7.9

Important update please download from here!

16/10/12 One trillion URLs crawled!

8 years since start of the project we've crawled one trillion URLs! See more in this forum post here.

21/04/12 MJ12node v1.7.8

Important update please download from here!

07/02/12 MJ12node v1.7.7

Important update please download from here!

18/12/11 MJ12node v1.7.6

Important update with a number of fixes please update software from here!

4/07/11 MJ12node v1.7.5

Significant upgrade with support for non-standard robots.txt externsions, get it here!

5/02/11 MJ12node v1.7.0

New generaction of crawler supporting more flexible crawling central server, get it here!

6/12/09 MJ12node v1.6.11

A number of important bug fixes, please upgrade your node here!

24/10/09 MJ12node v1.6.10

A number of important bug fixes, please upgrade your node here!

8/10/09 Majestic-12 finds more than 1 trillion unique URLs!

Majestic-12 confirms Google's milestone: more than 1 trillion URLs found, more here.

21/08/09 New giga-server squared!

A giga-monster-specced server (2x quad Xeons 2.5 Ghz, 32 GB RAM, 24 TB disks) was yet again kindly donated by an Gigaserver.nl from Holland! This server will enable the project to get to a new level of web link graph analysis - in September 2008 we expect to update anchor index to be the biggest publicly available index of its kind.

19/08/09 MJ12node v1.6.7

Small but important update, upgrade your node here!

14/08/08 MJ12node v1.6.6

One more bug fix related to filtering of session ids, update your node here!

09/08/08 MJ12node v1.6.5

An important bug fix related to parsing of XML feeds that used non-Latin encoding, please update your nodes here!

05/08/08 MJ12node v1.6.4

A lot of fixes and better analysis functionality in the new build, update it from here!

11/07/08 MJ12node v1.6.2

This new build features better support for "deep-crawling" as well as some bug fixes, update it from here!

22/04/08 MJ12node v1.6.1

Important bug-fix in the new client, update it from here!

10/04/08 MJ12node v1.6.0

Lots of fixes with much less disk used and more crawling for the same bandwidth usage: download new client here!

04/02/08 Majestic-SEO

Majestic-12 is proud to launch Majestic featuring anchor index - database of over 130 bln unique urls with backlinks and anchor text that can be analysed and reported to help understand relevancy issues that affect ranking of websites in modern web scale search engines.

6/01/08 Small redesign!

This is a small homepage redesign to give bigger emphasis to participants of this project rather than old new that have been archived here.

26/10/07 MJ12node v1.5.0

Many bugs fixes in data analysis module: download new client here.

17/08/07 New giga server

A monster-specced server (2x quad Xeons, 16 GB RAM, 16 TB disks) was provided by an appropriately named company Gigaserver from Holland, which is a big fan of the MJ12 project and wanted to contribute with a really poweful server, many thanks go to those great guys with great servers! This server will be fully utilised with the upcoming "anchor index"! Watch out Big G!

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Distributed Network Stats



Top 24 users (Today)

#NickURLs
done
Data
(MB)
1Germany nemercry812,520,46753,584,859
2Ukraine tiss631,488,42742,613,436
3Germany Pr0vieH523,270,94033,033,137
4Ukraine UA_ReMMeR327,112,94921,814,732
5Norway steinrar101,102,6166,539,030
6strafteter77,089,8374,856,678
7elvis157,693,5623,764,913
8Hong Kong SAR hixie37,282,7142,184,835
9Germany |MatMan|34,724,0312,208,738
10Germany Nitmeare21,138,6181,357,786
11Germany GrafZahl20,969,6361,444,863
12Germany BalouTheNavigator19,110,6591,270,237
13Malaysia PY 22211,500,672791,894
14Netherlands Smiba10,992,069751,670
15Hungary MJster9,717,465670,194
16batkerson6,818,052411,666
17Germany rw20076,201,370427,494
18Ukraine absolut4,108,793245,645
19United States sTs9503,850,845273,796
20Australia Jonathan Ferguson3,434,918235,803
21Norway DanielH3,156,240225,011
22Germany WoM2,904,755208,490
23Germany Norman_RKN2,784,046194,553
24Germany Andreas388711,999,337145,209
Total (43 users)2,739,953,273179,905,422
Top 24 users (Overall)

#NickURLs
done
Data
(MB)
1Germany nemercry4,694,000,309,870192,802,403,620
2United States serverninjas3,519,282,870,242124,480,600,905
3Germany Pr0vieH3,501,487,722,614145,971,109,214
4Ukraine tiss2,591,533,918,229119,765,606,479
5Ukraine UA_ReMMeR1,795,720,294,10591,023,204,487
6Finland refic1,349,076,621,93840,463,973,818
7United Kingdom Majestic12722,181,075,24721,212,441,378
8elvis1617,119,432,04519,151,020,051
9Switzerland rauppe31612,077,149,65516,700,218,297
10Germany Norman_RKN569,477,492,33513,892,829,967
11Germany Nitmeare499,787,106,42012,847,265,304
12Germany |MatMan|376,591,091,31914,652,018,331
13Norway steinrar371,566,925,11216,956,827,583
14Germany BalouTheNavigator336,616,684,53010,815,900,434
15Ukraine smilesvua314,634,307,1268,384,894,298
16Austria Fusl288,497,148,9147,238,959,661
17Belgium elhoim277,275,051,7397,478,279,984
18strafteter269,708,088,38812,557,799,961
19Belgium bruno28225,288,765,4456,930,018,215
20Malaysia PY 222139,024,270,1924,777,335,907
21United States Omega108,944,695,3003,395,501,609
22Ukraine DeadlyFire87,485,469,3292,345,158,305
23United Kingdom Majestic85,542,580,9471,907,172,827
24United States Razor_FX_II82,174,413,4842,074,502,554
Total (3610 users)25,411,077,914,436955,032,531,076

Customise!

Top 24 teams (Today)

#NameURLs
done
Data
(MB)
1Ukraine962,788,53264,679,461
2Pirate Party International.833,659,08554,942,645
3SETI.Germany523,270,94033,033,137
4Rechenkraft.net109,075,3037,070,696
5Team Norway104,258,8566,764,041
6XtremeSystems95,898,0176,020,047
7Free-DC18,256,2721,274,180
8Brony@Home10,992,069751,670
9Hungarian Geek Alliance9,717,465670,194
10BOINC@Australia3,434,918235,803
11Ars Technica2,393,771171,596
12Czech Republic1,333,72993,068
13Dutch Power Cows946,04764,936
14Team Japan737,60854,014
15Crunching@EVGA675,80946,647
16Team UK280,36318,652
17BOINC Synergy153,31011,167
18Free State Project102,1117,024
19Picard42,5213,096
Total2,678,016,726175,912,074
Top 24 teams (Overall)

#NameURLs
done
Data
(MB)
1Pirate Party International.4,334,399,718,396181,237,698,711
2Ukraine4,012,106,616,558199,031,240,043
3SETI.Germany3,128,078,779,812135,613,793,671
4Team Iowa2,703,543,545,406102,323,059,343
5Team Norway1,102,385,817,92241,620,317,345
6Rechenkraft.net431,138,120,55917,908,969,607
7XtremeSystems334,237,231,45012,643,815,787
8Free-DC63,365,310,1032,880,455,794
9Hungarian Geek Alliance53,677,053,7101,998,233,816
10IGA48,699,949,7501,580,964,443
11Dutch Power Cows29,540,462,1331,055,261,268
12Wiki4Games.com22,242,014,254854,860,102
13X Grubbers Kick Ass20,202,700,307764,641,608
14OcUK19,006,164,621605,654,214
15Czech Republic18,582,015,036735,418,803
16Brony@Home16,923,525,955922,123,453
17BOINC@Australia14,308,121,053692,509,254
18Russian_User_Team10,913,708,579387,102,678
19Team Canada6,038,451,592221,834,026
20Belgium5,955,641,928207,051,251
21BOINC Synergy5,686,446,155229,680,332
22Ars Technica5,076,978,303230,300,490
23Crunching@EVGA3,800,557,636165,745,166
24TeAm AnandTech3,726,899,602131,420,917
Total (51 teams)16,405,335,446,060704,042,152,122

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Last updated: 04 Mar 2026 20:04:18:800 GMT


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